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Jeremiah 5:23

The people are rebellious, even as inanimate nature sometimes is. But Jehovah can control both.

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  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    Verse Jeremiah 5:23. _THEY ARE REVOLTED AND GONE._] They have abandoned me, and are gone farther and farther into transgression. They are gone _entirely_ away from truth and righteousness....

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    Against the God (1) of Creation Jeremiah 5:22, and (2) of Providence Jeremiah 5:24, They sin, not merely by apostasy, but by a general immorality extending to all classes...

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    CHAPTER 5 _ 1. The apostate conditions of Jerusalem (Jeremiah 5:1) _ 2. The impending judgment (Jeremiah 5:10) 3. Sowing and reaping (Jeremiah 5:19) 4. The horrible thing ...

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    LET EVIL-DOERS FEAR YAHWEH. The folly of not fearing Yahweh is rebuked by a reminder of the power of Him who has set an impassable limit even to the sea (_cf._ the rebuke of Job's presumption by the d...

  • Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae

    DISCOURSE: 1039 GOD’S BOUNTIES, AND OUR INGRATITUDE Jeremiah 5:23. _This people hath a revolting and a rebellious heart. They are revolted and gone: neither say they in. their heart, Let us now fear...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    4. _Religious apostasy_ (Jeremiah 5:19-24) TRANSLATION (19) And it shall come to pass when you shall say, For what reason did the LORD our God do all these things to us? Then you shall say unto them,...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    But this people hath a revolting and a rebellious heart; they are revolted and gone. THIS PEOPLE HATH A REVOLTING AND A REBELLIOUS HEART - ()....

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    1-9. The universal corruption of the city prevents forgiveness....

  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    BUT THIS PEOPLE... — The contrast seems to lie in the fact that the elements are subject to God’s will, but that man’s rebellious will, with its fatal gift of freedom, has the power to resist it. The...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    וְ לָ † עָ֤ם הַ זֶּה֙ הָיָ֔ה...

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    Jeremiah 5:1; Jeremiah 6:1 CHAPTER IV THE SCYTHIANS AS THE SCOURGE OF GOD Jeremiah 4:3 - Jeremiah 6:30 IF we would under

  • G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

    Having thus declared that judgment was determined on, the prophet now carefully declared the reason for it. This was, first, the utter corruption of conduct. Among the people not a man was to lie foun...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    Reader! observe how graciously the Lord goeth on to expostulate, and to reason with his people. Both Israel and Judah shall hear. And by what strong appeals from his omnipotency, he calls them to cons...

  • John Calvin's Bible Commentary

    Here the previous verse is completed; for what is said here is connected with the question which we have noticed. But God now proves more clearly why he adduced what he said of the sea. The copulative...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

    THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 4, 5, AND 6. Chapter 4 resumes the subject of Chapter s 2, 3, and, applying it at that time to the people, tells them that, if they return, it must be unto th...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    Ver. 23 BUT THIS PEOPLE HATH A REVOLTING AND A REBELLIOUS HEART,.... They are not so obedient as the sea and its waves; nor so firm and stable as the sand that is set for the bound of it. This is a re...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    But this people hath a revolting and a rebellious heart; they are revolted and gone. Ver. 23. _But this people have a revolting and rebellious heart._] _a_ _Cor recedens et amaricans; _ gone they are...

  • Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    _Fear ye not me? saith the Lord_ He ascribes their stupidity and foolishness to their want of the fear of God. As if he had said, If you would but call to mind God's almighty power, and your own weakn...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    BLINDNESS OF HEART, INGRATITUDE, DECEIT, AND VIOLENCE...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    But this people hath a revolting and rebellious heart, not only apostate, but positively hostile to the Lord; THEY ARE REVOLTED, breaking loose from their affiliation with the Lord, and gone, far away...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    19-31 Unhumbled hearts are ready to charge God with being unjust in their afflictions. But they may read their sin in their punishment. If men will inquire wherefore the Lord doeth hard things unto t...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    They are not only revolted from me, and gone back, but they continue obstinate, and will not return, PSALMS 78:8, as the next clause intimates, where God shows their obstinacy by the effect of it. GON...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Jeremiah 5:23 people H5971 defiant H5637 (H8802) rebellious H4784 (H8802) heart H3820 revolted H5493 (H8804) depar

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    YHWH PRESENTS THE REASONS WHY THE INVASION IS NECESSARY (JEREMIAH 5:1). Invasion is seen as necessary because there are no righteous people in Jerusalem, and they are full of adultery (both spiritual...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    YHWH ASKS HIS PEOPLE WHY IN VIEW OF HIS CLEARLY REVEALED POWER THEY DO NOT FEAR HIM, AND CONCLUDES THAT IT IS BECAUSE THEY ARE REVOLUTIONARIES AND REBELS, CAUGHT UP IN SIN (JEREMIAH 5:20). YHWH addres...

  • Sermon Bible Commentary

    Jeremiah 5:21 Notice the results of self-will as shown in the text. I. Self-will in relation to the Divine government destroys the natural capacities and faculties of man. II. Self-will in relation...

  • Sermon Bible Commentary

    Jeremiah 5:23 I. One of our besetting sins is the habit of overlooking God's hand in the midst of His own works. It is a sin of very old standing in the world, and it has its root in unbelief, becaus...

  • Spurgeon's Bible Commentary

    Jeremiah 5:10. _Go ye up upon her walls, and destroy; but make not a full end: take away her battlements; for the are not the LORD'S. For the house of Israel and the house of Judah have dealt very tre...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    CONTENTS: Jeremiah's second message, continued. God's charges against them and the judgments threatened. CHARACTERS: God, Jeremiah. CONCLUSION: Sinners have reason to expect punishment on account of...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    Jeremiah 5:2. _Though they say the Lord liveth, surely they swear falsely._ These words being in every one's mouth, are but words, not sentiments. If men knew the grandeur of God, and studied his perf...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _But this people hath a revolting and a rebellious heart; they are revolted and gone._ ISRAEL’S APOSTASY Our state of heart and mind toward God is shown, not by those emotions which are kindled in u...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _O foolish people, and without understanding._ GOD’S JUDGMENT OF SELF-WILL The text is part of a message which was to be declared in the house of Jacob, and published in Israel. It shows that three...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    JEREMIAH—NOTE ON JEREMIAH 5:23 Rather than a circumcised heart (Jeremiah 4:4), the people have a STUBBORN AND REBELLIOUS HEART ...

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    CRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL NOTES.—1. CHRONOLOGY OF THE CHAPTER. The description here of unblushing immorality and total disorganisation leads Kimchi and others to date this chapter after Josiah’s times;...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    EXPOSITION Is the punishment thought too severe? Then let the moral condition of Jerusalem be inquired into. Must not such transgressions precipitate its people into ruin? There are four well-marked...

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    Run to and fro through the streets of Jerusalem, and see now, and know, and seek in the broad places, if you can find a man, if there be any that is executing judgment, and that is seeking truth; and...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    Hebrews 3:12; Hosea 11:7; Hosea 4:8; Isaiah 1:5; Isaiah 31:6;...

  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    Gone — From me....

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